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> “We decided being more transparent about some things is great..."

Ironically the rest of his statements and the article as a whole are extremely vague. $100MM at Apple scale doesn't seem like very much and since (from the article) they won't be doing it themselves I'd love to hear more about where that money is going.

To rebut his claim though you'd need a survey asking people how many times they've had faulty components/hardware. Not how good they feel about the supplier.

Thanks for the feedback! We're not yet A/B testing the landing page yet (working up to a more public push where that will come into play). That's a very interesting point about discussing our competitors instead of ourselves.

Xander looks pretty cool. The Google Analytics tie in is crucial. I'll probably be testing it out in the coming weeks.

Thanks for the feedback! We had discussed this some, so it's good to get other opinions on it.

Thanks! I'll be sure to make a show HN or something when I do. I still need to add in support for compression, but it's not high on my todo list and I'm sure the community could help.

In terms of managing IMAP connections, async is definitely the way to go. For our product, lightermail.com, I ported Python's imaplib to run on Tornado's ioloop (adding a few features like IDLE support and command pipelining). Not only can you manage a lot of connections with little memory, but you can do some really cool things (like the pipelining of commands mentioned above) that are unavailable to regular synchronous IMAP clients. Plan to open source the implementation when I have a bit more time.

What is this? I ask because neither the title nor page give me any indication.

[edit] At the time I asked this the HN title was "Freelancing, solved."

On the other hand, I also design software for a living and despite having used it a large number of times I still find OSX to be (for me) a usability nightmare. I just don't know how to do anything and find the interface completely counterintuitive.

Windows 8 seems just like Windows 7 with an extra layer and I found Windows 7 to be extremely usable. It's all pretty subjective.

Not sure why you're being down voted, the very first sentence in the article is quite a stretching of the truth.

The question is, who and what defines merit in a meritocracy? The article claims that those already in power do and thus it is they that control who gets to move up the ladder.

I don't think Apple gets a pass here. If they are forcing users onto their product it had better be competitive, no matter how hard it is. Microsoft got so such pass with WP7 and that was an entirely new OS/platform!

Well, to be fair I went to an Ivy League school and am not eligible to participate either.

I've been saying for a while that the only problem with email is one of management. As the volume of incoming emails increases we need better tools to avoid a similar increase in the amount of time we spend checking it.

To that end (shameless plug) some friends and I have been building Lightermail to solve this problem for us. We're getting close to opening the service up to a wider pool of private beta users and would love to have some HN users and their feedback in the mix. If interested head over to https://lightermail.com and we'll be sure to get back to you in the next couple weeks with an invite code.

I really like the look of this phone. I've been an Android guy since I left my venerable Blackberry Bold 9000, but I find myself really attracted to the interface of WP7/8. With a phone of this build quality, it's enough to make me give it a shot for my next upgrade.

I'm actually working on a product right now that provides that precise functionality (and more!) for Gmail. It also lets you schedule when your email arrives for specific groups or single contacts. It's https://lightermail.com and we'll be opening up the beta in a week or so. Hope it helps

No matter how you cut it, this whole trial was a loss for technology.

Error handling.

The tone in this article is unbelievable.

>The case raises questions over whether Craigslist is stifling innovation or simply protecting its data

There is no question. Craigslist isn't stopping Padmapper from being built, its stopping Padmapper from using Craigslist data. The continuous attempts to reframe Craigslist's actions as an attempt to stifle innovation seem almost surreal. I just can't understand how a community of professionals could support Padmapper in this.

Or maybe cost of doing business? I mean, I can self sign SSL certs, so why does the browser give me warnings on https URLs? Mozilla must be arm in arm with Verisign. I'm shocked an open source company could be this evil. I will never browse the internet with Firefox again. I hope they get burnt for this.

NOTE: All of the above was sarcasm

I agree. One of my good friends is a realtor. Facebook changed the way she does business. It is the source of 80+ percent of her leads and is, quite frankly, the MOST important social network to her.

Github may be the most important social network for a certain class of open source developer, but the author's attempt to extend its importance to demographics beyond this group makes the author sounds as if they're just trying to stake a claim as an early member of a new "cool" social network.

Aside from the "what exactly is this?" reaction, I just can't seem to get over the fact that I'm being asked to pay someone to build a service I will then have to pay for. This just seems absurd to me.

Either build it and I'll pay to use it or I pay you to build it and I use it for free. Can't have it both ways.

Why are you here commenting on this then? Just avoid the Microsoft articles and we can avoid your valueless commentary.

Are you 6?

I'm sorry, you switched from writing your backend in PHP to writing it in Javascript because you believe Javascript let's you more fully understand what's going on behind the scenes?

I'm quite curious as to your understanding of how the web really works.

Haskell

Well said. I'm actually shocked that a community of entrepreneurs would take the position that it's OK to demand access to a company's competitive advantage in order to compete with them.

I'm not sure if it's a sense of entitlement fostered by all the seemingly easy money around tech startups or simply sheer laziness.

And support the conscious ones? Pretty much every major tech company these days (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, etc.) is evil in some ways and not in others. People are excited because Microsoft is one of the few tech companies with the resources to bring new choices to market on a large scale. Actively hoping for less competition seems rather myopic to me.

Who needs to leave Microsoft for you to stop cringing? Does it matter? Do you need to see the company fail before you're comfortable? What about the companies that hire their ex-employees? Will they become evil as well?

I'm a linux guy, but to Microsoft I say, "bring the noise!" In the end we'll all benefit.

On the other hand, chances are that most of those developers still aren't running Safari.

Can you prove your own statement?

If you read "several reviews" and still don't know that it will run Windows 8 then you have issues beyond what tablet to buy next.